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Slice the trade-era wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Mahayana or TheravadaRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the kingdomsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Traders and pilgrims bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The use of iron began in the subcontinent around how many years ago?Read the answer and worked solution →Some of the largest collections of early iron tools and weapons were found in:Read the answer and worked solution →In the Tamil region, large landowners were called:Read the answer and worked solution →Ordinary ploughmen in the Tamil region were known as:Read the answer and worked solution →In north India the hereditary village headman was called the:Read the answer and worked solution →Independent smaller landowning farmers in north Indian villages were called:Read the answer and worked solution →The earliest Tamil works, composed around 2300 years ago, are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Sangam texts were named after assemblies of poets held in the city of:Read the answer and worked solution →Stories composed by ordinary people and preserved by Buddhist monks are the:Read the answer and worked solution →Rows of ceramic rings arranged one above another, used as toilets and drains, are called:Read the answer and worked solution →The most detailed account of early Indian ports was written by an unknown:Read the answer and worked solution →Imports into Barygaza included wine, copper, tin, lead, coral and:Read the answer and worked solution →The earliest coins, in use for about 500 years, were:Read the answer and worked solution →Mathura has been an important settlement for more than:Read the answer and worked solution →Around 2000 years ago Mathura became the second capital of the:Read the answer and worked solution →Mathura was an important centre for the worship of:Read the answer and worked solution →The fine, hard, shiny black pottery of this period is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Famous cloth-making centres of the period were Madurai in the south and which northern city?Read the answer and worked solution →Associations of craftspersons and merchants that also served as banks were called:Read the answer and worked solution →Arikamedu, where ships unloaded goods from distant lands, is in present-day:Read the answer and worked solution →The stamped red-glazed pottery found at Arikamedu, named after an Italian city, is:Read the answer and worked solution →Tall double-handled Mediterranean jars for wine or oil found at Arikamedu are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Tamil village termsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Arikamedu findsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the years agoRead the answer and worked solution →

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Slice the trade-era words

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Does not match the category
  1. Isobar
  2. Sonnet
  3. Fresco
  4. Nebula
Matches the category
  1. Muvendar
  2. Sangam
  3. Mahayana
  4. Bhakti
  5. Silk
Instructions
Slice only the words of traders, kings and pilgrims. Spare the others.
_Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Chapter 9, Traders, Kings and Pilgrims._

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Mahayana or Theravada

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Upper category
Mahayana
Lower category
Theravada
Items
  1. Category
    Mahayana
    Item
    Statues
  2. Category
    Mahayana
    Item
    Kanishka
  3. Category
    Mahayana
    Item
    Mathura
  4. Category
    Mahayana
    Item
    China
  5. Category
    Theravada
    Item
    Sri Lanka
  6. Category
    Theravada
    Item
    Myanmar
  7. Category
    Theravada
    Item
    Thailand
  8. Category
    Theravada
    Item
    Older
Instructions
Send each clue to the Mahayana track or the Theravada track.
_Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Chapter 9, Traders, Kings and Pilgrims._

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Sort the kingdoms

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Items
  1. Group
    Sangam
    Item
    Muvendar
  2. Group
    Sangam
    Item
    Puhar
  3. Group
    Sangam
    Item
    Madurai
  4. Group
    Satavahana
    Item
    Satakarni
  5. Group
    Satavahana
    Item
    Balashri
  6. Group
    Satavahana
    Item
    Dakshinapatha
  7. Group
    Kushana
    Item
    Kanishka
  8. Group
    Kushana
    Item
    Peshawar
  9. Group
    Kushana
    Item
    Gold coins
Groups
  1. Item
    Sangam
  2. Item
    Satavahana
  3. Item
    Kushana
Instructions
Drop each clue onto the Sangam chiefs, the Satavahanas or the Kushanas.
_Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Chapter 9, Traders, Kings and Pilgrims._

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